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Acquirement vs Mastery - What's the difference?

acquirement | mastery |

As nouns the difference between acquirement and mastery

is that acquirement is the act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment while mastery is the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

acquirement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
  • * (rfdate) (Joseph Addison):
  • * (rfdate) Hayward?:
  • * 1952 , Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
    • At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement , during which land values may vary impredictably.

    Synonyms

    * acquisition

    Usage notes

    * is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent. For example, eloquence, and skill in music and painting are acquirements, whereas genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed.

    mastery

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
  • * Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
    • If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
  • * (w), xxxii. 18
    • The voice of them that shout for mastery .
  • * , ix. 25.
    • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
    • O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
  • (label) Contest for superiority.
    • (Holland)
  • (label) A masterly operation; a feat.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
    • I will do a maistrie ere I go.
  • (label) The philosopher's stone.
  • The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
  • * (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
    • He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
    • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.